Mark Zuckerberg snagged a souvenir from The Social Network.
During an appearance on The Colin and Samir Show podcast, the entrepreneur, 40, revealed that he owns a T-shirt that Jesse Eisenberg wore while playing him in the 2010 film, The Social Network.
In the video interview shared to YouTube on March 27, Zuckerberg can be seen wearing a blue T-shirt with the words “Ardsley Athletic” written on it.
“Correct me if I’m wrong but you are wearing a shirt right now that Jesse Eisenberg wears in the movie when Eduardo comes to the house in Palo Alto,” host Samir Chaudry asked the Meta CEO. “Is that right?”
“Yeah, that’s true,” Zuckerberg said. “One of my friends saw this online in an auction and was like, ‘You have to get this.’ So I was like, ‘Alright, yeah, sure, let’s get it.'”
Chaudry then clarified, “Wait, so that’s the exact shirt?” to which Zuckerberg replied, “Yeah, this is his shirt. Well, it’s my shirt now. But it was his shirt.”
Chaudry asked, “Do you think he knows that, that you own the shirt now?”
“Now he does,” Zuckerberg said.
The shirt was listed on PropstoreAuction and, per the website, the winning bid was between $2,000 and $4,000.
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Eisenberg, 41, famously portrayed the Facebook and Meta cofounder in 2010’sThe Social Network. The movie also features Andrew Garfield as Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin and Justin Timberlake as Napster co-founder and Facebook’s first president, Sean Parker.
During an interview with BBC Radio 4 released on Tuesday, Feb. 4, Eisenberg spoke out against Zuckerberg while promoting his Oscar-winning movie A Real Pain.
“I haven’t been following his life trajectory, partly because I don’t want to think of myself as associated with somebody like that,” Eisenberg said in an interview clip the BBC shared on its website. “It’s not like I played a great golfer or something and now I want people to think I’m a great golfer — it’s like this guy that is doing things that are problematic, taking away fact-checking and safety concerns. Making people who are already threatened in this world more threatened.”
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Meta recently issued controversial changes to its content moderation protocols and community standards across Facebook and Instagram. Zuckerberg also attended Donald Trump’s inauguration as U.S. president on Jan. 20, shortly before his company agreed to pay $25 million to settle Trump’s 2021 lawsuit over his previous suspension from its platforms following the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots in Washington, D.C.
“I don’t think, like, about, ‘Oh I played the guy in the movie.’ It’s just, I’m a human being and you read these things and these people have billions upon billions of dollars, more money than any human person has ever amassed,” Eisenberg continued. “What are they doing with it? Oh, they’re doing it to curry favor with people who’s preaching hateful [things]?”
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